Need to check company email while out of office????

[dringer]

My Boss came in this morning and was fairly adamant that he wants to be able to access his E-MAIL while out of the office. We have an Windows NT server, and he wants to be able to check his company email while at home or abroad, how can this be done???????????
Please
Regards
DC

 

[lordrich]

It all depends on where your mail server is. If it's on a publicly accessable computer (with a public ip address), then it's just a case of installing the right software and you can then use imap/pop3/webmail/whatever.

However, I'm assuming your server is internal to your network. This is what we do, it may not be the best way - but it works.

Our gateway computer (windows 2000 server) with a connection to the internet has Terminal Services and vpn setup. We also have outlook installed on this computer, and have given the senior partners vpn usernames and passwords.
They can then connect to this computer using vpn, and then run a terminal services connection to it which will let them not just check their emails - but also run the specialist software our company uses.

Again, there's probably a better way for just email access - but that's what we do. Hope this helps in some way.

 

[dringer]

I am dialing in but I cannot get past the shiva box, any ideas???

 

[TimeTraveler]

Not sophisticated, but have the account on the server forward to a pop3 mailbox somewhere. Can be setup on the vacation message section usually. After back from out of office, simply remove the vacay entry. This doesn't provide access to address books or subfolders, however. Just have them export any of that stuff to a .csv file and load it before the person heads out.

Again, probably not the technical solution other might provide.

Sean aka TimeTraveler



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[Andre6807]

We're using OWA (outlook web access) on an Exchange 5.5 NT 4.0 sp6a server. It's working pretty good for all our users. But I would strongly recommend to go with Exchange 2000 or 2003 on a Win2k server. Their is much more functionality in these newer version of OWA. We are actually planning on migrating to Win2k (or 2003) and Exchange 2003. But all those new versions comes at a certain cost!!!

Andre